While they're great for organising your belongings and storing them neatly, storage containers can also facilitate an 'out of sight, out of mind' approach. Professional organiser, Vanessa Hayes, finds that buying organisers before you've decluttered only adds to the huddled home headache.
"Instead, you need to edit your stuff first, then decide on products to help you organise what's left," she says. Then measure up the storage spaces you have to work with. If you buy too many boxes, you might be tempted to fill them all and keep more of what you don't need.